The Christmas shopping season often can put a colorful coating on an otherwise rotten economy. ...more

January 24, 2009

Businesses across Florida are carefully watching the Legislature with the deepening cash crisis facing state government leading to the most serious talk of eliminating some tax exemptions since former President John McKay took on the tax structure eight years ago. ...more

December 21, 2008

Florida jumped to third nationwide in the rate of foreclosures in July, a report released Wednesday by housing research firm RealtyTrac says. ...more

August 14, 2008

Tampa Bay LF Carl Crawford and Texas Rangers OF Josh Hamilton are forever linked in Rays history as the franchise's top two picks in the 1999 draft. ...more

May 26, 2008

During an introspective moment, Daryl Schooley declared, "Everyone in life is a prospect for something." Schooley liked the thought so much he named his band Prospect when it was founded, in 1989. Flash forward to late 2006. When Prospect was revived then after a hiatus in the early 2000s, the second incarnation carried the original name. ...more

December 26, 2007

In what can easily be described as a Jekyll and Hyde performance as we approach one-third of the way into the season, the Lightning are in desperate need of Dr. Jekyll showing up tonight. ...more

December 1, 2007

SEBRING — Highlands County's topsy-turvey real estate market is causing Realtors, landlords and homeowners to reassess their decisions. ...more

October 10, 2007